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I clip it all on harvest and use small card board boxes with the top open and place in a cool dark place. I shake the box daily and jar after a week or so.
no real science....
What I do is
spread or hang until a little crispy on the outside. Put in a closed container to pull the moisture into the dry material. repeat until the stems shrink down. then pack for slower curing...
I clip it all on harvest and use small card board boxes with the top open and place in a cool dark place. I shake the box daily and jar after a week or so.
Key to a quick dry!
Trim the flowers down to the highest inter-node, working from the bottom up, until there is no visible nodes just pure flower!!
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5-10 day dry time depending on flower size and density!
Trimming all accessible stems give the flowers a better taste. Same goes with leaf. Trim the leaf down to the stem if possible.. Unless the strain is very frosty; lightly trim leaf tips to desired flower look!!
OH... What I do that most don't... When I harvest I go straight into trimming..
Reason - The stacks are still pulling up nutrients from stem after being harvested! TASTE! Would you smoke stems? No Why have the taste of stem in your flowers? Unless you are trying to have more weight and high quality flowers is not a concern!
Last edited by phxfire; 05-01-2012 at 10:41 AM.
Shit in colorado we dry in 5 days need a humidifier thereOriginally Posted by Lucius Vorenus
I have a humidifier in my drying room now and even with that fucker on for an hour its only 47% in the room. Im gonna try just hanging for 2-3 days this next harvest and then putting them all in large brown paper grocery bags. I am harvesting 21 plants so im thinking ill need about 16 bags at least. Maybe ill do those cardboard filing boxes. I know a large commercial guy in Mendocino that uses those.
47% and it still dries in 2-3 days. Your problem is that you don't grow big enough nugs. I dry at 42-48% and it takes about 5-7.
Agree!!!
Too many varibles to give an exact time to dry!
Stem thickness to cola thickness all play a roll in the drying process..
The same applies to the curing process!!
mold in az??? lol jk
you can simply hang them, 1-2 days... box them 1-2 more days, then its off to the jars for the 55-60% cure...
you can still use whichever different "method" you want to... but the only thing you have to be careful about is them getting TOO dry too fast...
so it takes up more of your attention quicker, rather than say if your were in an area that already had 50-60 % humidity vs 10-30%...
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